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Topic: Need to dehumidify

Posted By: BoulderGal
Subject: Need to dehumidify
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2018 at 9:31am

Can anyone offer recommendations for a good size, style, brand dehumidifier for my 178? I need to order ASAP, probably from Amazon.

Thanks in advance,

Susan

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BoulderGal

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Posted By: GlueGuy
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2018 at 10:32am

Let me google that for you:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Arpod-owners.com+dehumidifier - http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Arpod-owners.com+dehumidifier

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bp
2017 R-Pod 179 Hood River
2015 Ford F150 SuperCrew 4WD 3.5L Ecoboost

Posted By: furpod
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2018 at 2:36pm

If it's for while the pod is in use.. just crack a window a little, and FF just a bit. All it takes.

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Posted By: BoulderGal
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2018 at 10:58pm

Can't go off and leave the trailer with window cracked open....I'm in the Pacific NW and it rains ALL THE TIME!!!! I really want a small dehumidifier that I can leave running during the daytime while I'm at work.

Thanks for the idea tho!

Susan

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BoulderGal

Posted By: furpod
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2018 at 7:21am

We get 45 inches of rain here on average.. Over 60 so far this year.. We know rain. You can open the window a 1/16 of an inch, won't be an issue, and lift the FF lid a 1/2 inch or so.. Just enough for air flow.. It works, and no rain gets in.

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Posted By: BoulderGal
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2018 at 8:25pm

Thank you all! The rain comes down (or across) almost horizontal so I'm reluctant to leave a window open. I did buy a Eva-Dry humidified on Amazon (non electric) and will see how it does next week when the rain returns.

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BoulderGal

Posted By: lostagain
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2018 at 10:07pm

Boulder Girl, would you please send some of that rain a little further south? We could really use it. Even the drip from your dehumidifier would be appreciated.

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Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney
Sonoma 167RB
Our Pod 172
2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost

Posted By: BoulderGal
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2018 at 10:12pm

I sure wish I could. Too many fires south of here.

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BoulderGal

Posted By: offgrid
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2018 at 1:05am

Gotta love that horizontal rain, that's what we get on the Outer Banks too. And it changes direction as the frontal systems go through so you can't just open a leeward/downwind window and forget about it.

BoulderGal, what's probably going on in your case is that its also pretty cold, so that any humidity you have inside the warmer trailer is condensing on the inside of the windows and any other cold surfaces. Warm air can hold a lot more water vapor than cold air. As an example, air at 50 degrees and 100% relative humidity holds the same amount of water (same absolute humidity) as air at 75 degrees and about 40% relative humidity. So its going to be hard to remove enough of that inside moisture to keep the condensation from forming, because whenever you breathe or cook something you're adding to it.

Try the dehumidifier and see if that works for you. If the trailer is closed up during the day with no one inside it should keep up ok. When you're there in the evening the dehumidifier might not to be able to keep up so it might work better to open up a window a little on the leeward/downwind side of the trailer (keeping track of any wind direction changes) and also the fan lid and turn the heater up. The rising warm air will escape via the fan lid and draw in outside air from the window. That might sound counterproductive but the outside air has lower absolute humidity and as it heats up when it enters the trailer it will reduce the humidity in the trailer.

One other trick that you might try is to turn on the air conditioner and the heater simultaneously, leaving the windows and fan cover closed. The a/c acts basically as a big dehumidifier so it will pump out a lot of moisture. Lots of times on the east coast we run our a/c's just to dry out the air in our houses even when its not hot outside. The pod heater puts out more heat than the a/c can remove so it will win the battle to control the temperature inside the trailer. This is for sure an inefficient (and noisy) solution but it should work and if you're not going to be paying more if you're using extra electricity then why not.

Hope that all makes sense. Good luck.

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1994 Chinook Concourse
1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft
2015 Rpod 179 - sold

Posted By: Shane
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2018 at 3:49pm

Get a cover for your vent fan on your pod so you can leave the vent open and not get any rain inside the pod. I installed the Maxair II vent cover, love it.

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ENGINE 55,TRUCK 44,BATALLION 12

Posted By: mcarter
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2018 at 4:02pm

+1, been in some hard rain, vent fan operating, no water inside.

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Mike Carter
2015 178
" I had the right to remain silent, I just didn't have the ability."

Posted By: Dannytoo
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2018 at 6:40pm

The vent cover is the way to go you don’t need to open very much for it to work wonders

Posted By: BoulderGal
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2018 at 10:04pm

That looks like a good idea. I need to go back to another thread to try to solve my ever present and yet to be solved serious leak around my a/c on the roof.

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BoulderGal